The Latest Breaking News from Hull

Robert Aramayo: From Hull to Hollywood

The 33-year-old picked up two acting awards at the Baftas, beating Hollywood heavyweights Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothee Chalamet and Ethan Hawke.

Evening Standard · Feb 23

Robert Aramayo: The Hull lad who beat Leonardo DiCaprio to a Bafta

IN FOCUS: Ellie Harrison looks at how the ‘I Swear’ star made his way to awards victory, all while raising awareness of a widely misunderstood condition and starring in London’s buzziest play

The Independent UK · Feb 23

World Club Challenge fightback falls short as Broncos get glimpse of uncertain NRL season ahead

Brisbane’s defeat to Hull KR posed more questions than answers in the aftermath of Payne Haas’s decision to switch to Souths

The Guardian - AU · Feb 19

Hull’s maritime history thrusts city into world’s top places to visit in 2026

Historic trawler and floating lighthouse among East Yorkshire city’s attractions as it gears up for tourism boost

The Guardian - UK · Jan 1

Football fans join the culture club

Letters: Bradford v Hull | Barking up the wrong tree | AI fails | Narrow margin | Flipping heck | Puzzles the cat

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2025

From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that another “Noah’s flood” is coming to drown the world that he sleeps in a basket in the attic – freeing…

The Conversation · Dec 4, 2025

Richard Gott obituary

Journalist, historian and author who served as a foreign correspondent and features editor of the Guardian

The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2025

Oggy oggy oggy! The donk-tacular dance music of Hull’s huge funfair

With 600,000 people attending, Hull Fair is the UK’s biggest – and has a thrilling but overlooked musical subculture. We follow the blaring soundsystems to meet the DJs and MCs facing off in waltzer battles

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2025

Maurice Rutherford obituary

Poet who wrote with originality, warmth and mischief about his home city of Hull, after turning to writing later in life

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2025

Funeral director admits giving women ashes he claimed were their unborn children

Robert Bush pleaded guilty to offences spanning more than 10 years at his business, Legacy Independent Funeral Directors’ in Hull.

Evening Standard · Oct 15, 2025